UPDATE: Scripps Swings the Axe
Jen: E.W. Scripps is reportedly cutting 400 positions company-wide, according to the company's Q3 results press release. Scripps is saving $15 million from the move. On Thursday, news of the cuts across newspaper become known.
At the Commercial Appeal at least 27 employees under the guild were laid off.
The Scripps-owned Evansville Courier Co., in Indiana said it was trimming roughly 32 positions. It publishes The Evansville Courier & Press among others.
The Treasure Coast Newspapers group has lost 38 positions. The Naples Daily News in Florida is down 34. The Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News eliminated 11 jobs. And the Caller-Times in Corpus Christi, Texas lost 23 positions.
LA Observed's TJ Sullivan wrote the Ventura County Star shed 45 jobs, 17 of them were newsroom positions.
The Knoxville News Sentinel eliminated 50 positions.
A commenter writes The Record Searchlight in Redding, Calif., lost 12 positions.
According to Scripps, since 2006 -- but not including today's news -- the company chopped 13% of its workforce or 625 employees. By the end of 2008, the company said the employee count at the newspaper division will be under 4,000.
Anyone with more information including more details about Commercial Appeal or Rocky Mountain News let us know.
12 at the lil 'ol Record Searchlight in Redding, which thanks to the past year's massive attrition and layoffs is still profitable, believe it or not.
Posted by: Anon | November 07, 2008 at 01:02 AM
• The Day in New Haven, Conn., cut 11 full- and part-time jobs
• The Standard-Times in San Angelo, Texas, will be printed in Abilene at the Reporter News
• The Times Record News in Wichita Falls, Texas, cut 9
• No layoffs at the Rocky Mountain News: http://bit.ly/akIl
More layoffs: http://graphicdesignr.net/papercuts/
Posted by: Erica Smith | November 08, 2008 at 03:58 AM
Colleagues at the Rocky Mountain News told us here at The Denver Post that on Thursday, managing editor Deb Goeken told them of the Scripps cuts but assured them it would not impact the Rocky newsroom. A story in the Rocky on Saturday confirms.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/nov/07/scripps-cancels-dividend-plans-layoffs-after-q3-lo/
Posted by: vm | November 08, 2008 at 12:47 PM